Short Stories and Political Satire

This week’s award goes to John Allen Chau, who thought it was his duty to preach about a magic Jewish prophet to the Sentinelese people, a p

This corpulent man who grows fatter daily on the sweat of the poor, is not content with people giving what they can afford. He wants to forc

How to tell if you or someone you know is a geek or just a nerd.

Bob has an IQ of 140. This makes him very smart but not a genius. Jane, Peter and Paul have IQs of 100, 90 and 70 respectively. The average IQ of this group is 100. The question is: would you rather have Bob make decisions, or would you prefer to live by the rules of the group? Here’s a clue to the right answer – it’s directly related to your own IQ. The numbers above are better than real life. The distribution of Intelligence is not a smooth-sided pyramid, it’s a ziggurat wi

Dear Donald, Thank you for your application for membership of The League of Dastardly Dictators. I regret to inform you that having conside

Donald Trump’s recent assertion - that he had a higher IQ than Secretary of State Rex Tillerson - got one group of software developers wondering – just how high is that? Having drunk a couple of tins too many and spent a day arguing over theorems that might prove Heaven is hotter than Hell, Ezon Fyre of E Cripes Inc. and his software development team were in the mood for more of their unique brand of speculative analysis. The question was: where to start? They started by rese